Little Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Bell,
Testator made the following bequest:. “To my cousin, Don Little, I give and devise Ten Thousand dollars to be paid to him, if and when he survive his wife. If. he does not survive her, then. this money is to be retained by my Executors and disposed of as hereinafter designated.” “Disposed of as hereinafter designated” meant that it became a part of the residuary trust estate which this Court held in Little Estate, 403 Pa. 247, 168 A. 2d 738², constituted a gift to charity, i.e., for the charitable uses and purposes specified in the decree of the lower Court. The…
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